Month: June 2015

Banner photo is of 129 Church in 2013. Photo by K Taylor. Long before Church St. became synonymous with pawn shops and camera stores, or even churches, it was the idyllic country estate of John McGill, the last Lieutenant of the County of York. McGill built his cottage here in 1803 when the land was […]

Banner photo is of 237-243 Queen St E in 2013. Photo by K Taylor. Distracted by the prospect of a hot sandwich at the Schnitzel Queen – and who wouldn’t be – you could almost miss the curious building that houses the restaurant and the neighbouring beauty supply. Nestled between Sherbourne and a little alley […]

Banner photo is of Queen St. W., looking east, in 1897. From the City of Toronto Archives. I love this marker. I love that it is there to celebrate a subway of the kind you’d least expect – literally that they’d built a sub-way under the bridge – as in an underpass. And I especially love that […]